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The term "X rated love letters" has been searched for 526 times on the American Poems site since February 23rd, 2006.
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1. Mail Call - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 1135 times on American Poems.
The letters always just evade the hand
One skates like a stone into a beam, falls like a bird.
Surely the past from which the letters rise
Is waiting in the future, past the graves?
The soldiers are all haunted by their lives.
Their claims upon... (Read full poem)
2. The Night I Was Going To Die - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 3863 times on American Poems.
the night I was going to die
I was sweating on the bed
and I could hear the crickets
and there was a cat fight outside
and I could feel my soul dropping down through the
mattress
and just before it hit the floor I jumped up
I was almost too weak... (Read full poem)
3. All the letters I can write - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2020 times on American Poems.
All the letters I can write
Are not fair as this --
Syllables of Velvet --
Sentences of Plush,
Depths of Ruby, undrained,
Hid, Lip, for Thee --
Play it were a Humming Bird --
And just sipped -- me --(Read full poem)
4. Silent Letters - written by Charles Webb
Read 399 times on American Poems.
Treacherous as trap door spiders,
they ambush children's innocence.
"Why is there g h in light? It isn't fair!"
Buddha declared the world illusory
as the p sound in psyche. Sartre
said the same of God from France,
Olympus of silent... (Read full poem)
5. To England - written by Richard Brautigan
From Shake the Kaleidoscope.
Read 1162 times on American Poems.
There are no postage stamps that send letters
back to England three centuries ago,
no postage stamps that make letters
travel back until the grave hasn't been dug yet,
and John Donne stands looking out the window,
it is just beginning to rain this... (Read full poem)
7. The Unborn - written by Sharon Olds
Read 1677 times on American Poems.
Sometimes I can almost see, around our heads,
Like gnats around a streetlight in summer,
The children we could have,
The glimmer of them.
Sometimes I feel them waiting, dozing
In some antechamber - servants, half-
Listening for the bell.... (Read full poem)
8. No Return - written by William Matthews
From After All: Last Poems.
Published in 1998.
Read 572 times on American Poems.
I like divorce. I love to compose
letters of resignation; now and then
I send one in and leave in a lemon-
hued Huff or a Snit with four on the floor.
Do you like the scent of a hollyhock?
To each his own. I love a burning bridge.
I like to watch... (Read full poem)
9. Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1421 times on American Poems.
SMOKE of autumn is on it all.
The streamers loosen and travel.
The red west is stopped with a gray haze.
They fill the ash trees, they wrap the oaks,
They make a long-tailed rider
In the pocket of the first, the earliest evening star.. .... (Read full poem)
11. Reuben Pantier - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 522 times on American Poems.
Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,
Your love was not all in vain.
I owe whatever I was in life
To your hope that would not give me up,
To your love that saw me still as good.
Dear Emily Sparks, let me tell you the story.
I pass... (Read full poem)
12. Portrait Of The Artist As A Prematurely Old Man - written by Ogden Nash
Read 2299 times on American Poems.
It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
That all sin is divided into two parts.
One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important,
And it is what you are doing when you are doing something... (Read full poem)
13. Aftermath - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 2156 times on American Poems.
I learnt to write to you in happier days,
And every letter was a piece I chipped
From off my heart, a fragment newly clipped
From the mosaic of life; its blues and grays,
Its throbbing reds, I gave to earn your praise.
To make a pavement for... (Read full poem)
14. One Of Us Two - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 2122 times on American Poems.
The day will dawn when one of us shall hearken
In vain to hear a voice that has grown dumb.
And morns will fade, noons pale, and shadows darken,
While sad eyes watch for feet that never come.
One of us two must sometime face existence
Alone... (Read full poem)
15. Walt Whitman - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 991 times on American Poems.
The master-songs are ended, and the man
That sang them is a name. And so is God
A name; and so is love, and life, and death,
And everything. But we, who are too blind
To read what we have written, or what faith
Has written for us, do not... (Read full poem)
16. Letters To Dead Imagists - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 1716 times on American Poems.
EMILY DICKINSON:
You gave us the bumble bee who has a soul,
The everlasting traveler among the hollyhocks,
And how God plays around a back yard garden.
STEVIE CRANE:
War is kind and we never knew the kindness of war till
you came;
Nor the black... (Read full poem)
17. A Sick Child - written by Randall Jarrell
From The Complete Poems.
Published in 1969.
Read 2828 times on American Poems.
The postman comes when I am still in bed.
"Postman, what do you have for me today?"
I say to him. (But really I'm in bed.)
Then he says - what shall I have him say?
"This letter says that you are president
Of - this word here; it's a... (Read full poem)
18. Our Whole Life - written by Adrienne Rich
Published in 1969.
Read 8627 times on American Poems.
Our whole life a translation
the permissible fibs
and now a knot of lies
eating at itself to get undone
Words bitten thru words
~~
meanings burnt-off like paint
under the blowtorch
All those dead letters
rendered into the... (Read full poem)
19. The Idea of Ancestry - written by Etheridge Knight
Read 2062 times on American Poems.
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black
faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand-
fathers (both dead), brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts,
cousins (1st and 2nd), nieces, and nephews.They stare
across the space at me... (Read full poem)
20. My Father's Love Letters - written by Yusef Komunyakaa
Read 3778 times on American Poems.
On Fridays he'd open a can of Jax
After coming home from the mill,
& ask me to write a letter to my mother
Who sent postcards of desert flowers
Taller than men. He would beg,
Promising to never beat her
Again. Somehow I was happy
She had gone, &... (Read full poem)
21. Holy Day - written by Philip Levine
Read 601 times on American Poems.
Los Angeles hums
a little tune --
trucks down
the coast road
for Monday Market
packed with small faces
blinking in the dark.
My mother dreams
by the open window.
On the drainboard
the gray roast humps
untouched, the oven
bangs its iron jaws,
but... (Read full poem)
22. The Unknowable - written by Philip Levine
From The Mercy.
Published in 1999.
Read 491 times on American Poems.
Los Angeles hums
a little tune --
trucks down
the coast road
for Monday Market
packed with small faces
blinking in the dark.
My mother dreams
by the open window.
On the drainboard
the gray roast humps
untouched, the oven
bangs its iron jaws,
but... (Read full poem)
23. Some Foreign Letters - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2144 times on American Poems.
I knew you forever and you were always old,
soft white lady of my heart. Surely you would scold
me for sitting up late, reading your letters,
as if these foreign postmarks were meant for me.
You posted them first in London, wearing furs
and a new... (Read full poem)
24. Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Plutonian Ode.
Published in 1980.
Read 2821 times on American Poems.
Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof
out my window across the street, a bird perched on the cross
surveys the city's blue-grey clouds. Larry Rivers
'll come at 10 AM and take my picture. I'm taking
your picture, pigeons. I'm writing... (Read full poem)
25. Elizabeth Childers - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 623 times on American Poems.
Dust of my dust,
And dust with my dust,
O, child who died as you entered the world,
Dead with my death!
Not knowing breath, though you tried so hard,
With a heart that beat when you lived with me,
And stopped when you left me for Life.... (Read full poem)
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